A penguin couple received an extra special New Year's gift at a zoo in New York, where they became the organization's first same-sex foster parents to successfully hatch an egg.
The chick was hatched on January 1 by Elmer and Lima, two adult male Humboldt penguins, at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo in Syracuse, New York, the zoo announced in a press release.
Elmer and Lima were both born at the zoo themselves -- Elmer in 2016 and Lima in 2019 -- and they became a couple in fall 2021 during the current breeding season.
The zoo said Elmer was given his name "because the egg he hatched from was accidentally damaged by his parents and the animal care team repaired it using Elmer's glue."
Same-sex penguin couple become first-time dads at New York zoo
you better believe that zoo wasn't in Harlem
The chick was hatched on January 1 by Elmer and Lima, two adult male Humboldt penguins, at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo in Syracuse, New York, the zoo announced in a press release.
Elmer and Lima were both born at the zoo themselves -- Elmer in 2016 and Lima in 2019 -- and they became a couple in fall 2021 during the current breeding season.
The zoo said Elmer was given his name "because the egg he hatched from was accidentally damaged by his parents and the animal care team repaired it using Elmer's glue."
Same-sex penguin couple become first-time dads at New York zoo
you better believe that zoo wasn't in Harlem